Rope-fastener.



1 No. 778,253. PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904.

' J. LEIGHTHAM.

ROPE FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 8, 1904- .27- .5... R I 12 Z? J7 M M va'nfoawituadaeo I V UNITED STAT S Patented December 27, 1:904. A

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH LEIGHTHAM, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT ANDMESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF FIVE-EIGHTHS TO JACOB NOLDE AND JOHN A. LINDBERG,OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

ROPE-FASTENER.

SPECIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent N0. 778,253, dated December27, 1904.

' Application filed AprillS, 1904:. Serial No, 202,181- 7 To wZZ whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH LEIGHTHAM, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of Reading, county of Berks, State of Pennsylvania,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rope Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved fastening device or cleat for ropesor cords; and my object is to provide a simple and inexpensive means,for effectively securing either the end portions or intermediateportions of a clothes-line for instance, while at the same timeproviding for bending the line in any desired direction from thefastening and firmly supporting the same.

The invention is fully described in connection with the accompanyingdrawings and is specifically pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved device, showing a ropeturned around the projecting pins thereon to firmly secure the same, oneend of the rope being bent at right angles upon the supporting-shoulderon the pin-head. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the device, also showing therope secured thereon.

A represents the base-plate of the device, by means of which it issuitably secured to a proper support, and B B are fixed similar pinsprojecting from one face thereof and preferably formed integraltherewith. These pins are each formed with an approximately circularhead 6, between which and the face of the base-plate is thus formed anannular groove 0, in which the rope is engaged when rturned around theshort body of the pin.

The pins are spaced apart sufficiently to permit of wrapping the ropesuccessively around the two pins, and the groove is tapering, so as towedge together the lapping portions of the rope, the inner faces of thepin-heads being sloped, as shown, to thus taper the groove. The rope Rbeing turned one full turn or more around one of the pins and thencarried to the other pin and similarly turned-upon that is so firmlywedged in the groove 0 of each pin as to securely lock it to the device,and the rope may then be carried to other fasteners in succession,located as desired. To provide for conveniently extending the rope at anangle to the fastener, the surface of each head is made plane, and I cutaway a peripheral portion of each pin-head at the outer side of eachpin, so as to form. similar plane shoulders d d, upon which the rope isbent laterally at a right angle, as indicated in the drawings, to theprevious. direction of the rope, the bend being made within the groove 0and serving not only to deflect the rope in the changed direction,'butalso to more certainly prevent any slippage of the rope upon thefastener.

It will be observed that the outer surface of each pin isnonchanneledthat is to say, is not formed with a transverse groove orchannel to receive and hold the ropeand that the rope after being coiledaround the body of the pin and thereby held if its direction is changedextends from said coiled portion into engagement with the shoulder d,and thence directly at an angle with said shoulder and the top of thepin, as well as with said coiled portion, 7 7

What I claim is 1. The means herein described for fastening ropes,comprising a plurality of spaced pins around which the rope is wound insuccession, each of said pins having its body formed with a taperingannular groove in which the rope is tightly wedged and one of said pinshaving an approximately plane end surface formed with a peripheralshoulder which engages the rope and forms a bight thereon and leads saidrope off directly from the pin and at an angle with its previousdirection.

' 2. The means herein described for fastening ropes comprising a base, aplurality of spaced pins secured to said base, around which pins therope is wound in succession, each of said pins having an enlarged headformed with an approximatelyplane surface, and each of said heads havinga cutaway peripheral portion to form a plane shoulder which overhangsthe body of its pin and is adapted to engage and form a bight in therope and to lead the rope directly off from the In testimony whereofIaflix my signature in pm at an angle to 1ts previous directlon, and thepresence of two witnesses. each of said heads having its lnner surface 1i f i sloped outward from the body of its pin to JObEl H LLHTHUIAM' 5form a tapering annular groove in which the \Vitnesses:

rope is tightly wedged, all substantially as D. M. STEWART,

shown and for the purposes set forth. W. G. STEWART.

